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Samsung Galaxy Note8 smartphones are displayed at the company's showroom in Seoul on October 31, 2017.
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics logged a record profit of 11.2 trillion won -- 10.0 billion USD -- in the July to September period, it said on October 31, its best for any quarter. / AFP PHOTO / JUNG Yeon-Je (Photo credit should read JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images)